Lamps and Sconces 

After the Morris chair, the clearest expression of the Arts & Crafts ideal of beauty is the light fixtures and lamps that the movement crafted. At the time, electric lights were relatively new. That was a wonderful opportunity to use the Arts & Crafts vocabulary of beauty and simplicity in a whole new way.

The lights that were developed used the warmth of fumed oak, copper and mica or stained glass to make a purely utilitarian thing into a thing of beauty. They extended the warmth of the hearth to small pools of light distributed through the home.

Such beauty and warmth are available today, either as an homage to the designs of the greats of yesteryear, or as a Desert Craftsmen original design using the Arts & Crafts vocabulary.

Garden Post Lantern of unfinished cypress with art glass sides and copper roof.

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